In America everything's about who's number one today.

I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

When you`re onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.